“The problem is that abundant resources, like computing power, are too often treated as scarce. Consider another example: Wired‘s IT department used to send out occasional emails telling employees it was time to “delete unneeded files from the shared folders”—their way of saying they had run out of storage room on the servers. [...] One day, after years of this ritual, I began to wonder just how much storage capacity we actually had. Turns out, not so much: 500 gigabytes. At the time, a terabyte of memory (1,000 gigabytes) cost about $130. I had recently purchased a standard Dell desktop PC for my family, which the kids used for playing videogames; it came with a terabyte internal hard drive. My children had twice as much storage as my entire staff.” (emphasis added)

I find that simply pointing out the absurdity of it doesn’t seem to “fix” the issue. Any advice on how to help people see that they are treating an abundant resource as if it was scarce?

Read more at: Tech Is Too Cheap to Meter: It’s Time to Manage for Abundance, Not Scarcity

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